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    Is your SSD initialized as MBR or GPT?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Aug 18, 2014.

  1. Spartan@HIDevolution

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    All my SSDs are initialized as GPT because I read once that it takes 0.5 seconds less to initialize a GPT drive during boot up than an MBR Drive

    Obviously I don't care bout the 2TB+ support feature of GPT since all my SSDs are much smaller but that fast boot up initialization is what made me set them as GPT for all

    What do you guys do?
     
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    That initialization bonus is due to the usage of UEFI.
    Mine are on GPT because I use UEFI boot.
     
    Marksman30k, Aug 18, 2014
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    id switch to gpt in a heartbeat, unfortunately im stuck with bios only support on my rig, so mbr all the way for the time being :)
     
    jaybee83, Sep 15, 2014
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    MBR for maximum compatibility.

    I could switch my hard drives (but not my SSD) to GPT since XP x64 and Linux both support it for storage drives, but I don't really know what practical benefits if any it'd give me, so why mess with what's already working? Easier > 2 TB support is the only one I can name, and at the time being I don't have a need for that.
     
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    as I said, I don't care about the 2TB Support since all my drives are SSDs and we don't have 2TB SSDs yet......

    the only thing I liked about GPT is the fact that it can be initialized on startup by like 0.5 seconds less than MBR

    On a side note, after installing Windows 7, I switched BIOS to MBR and all my SSDs initialized as MBR again as Legacy BIOS plays better with MBR than GPT disks as opposed to the contrary of UEFI disks which play better with GPT
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Sep 15, 2014
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    Its a mix, my laptop is all GPT but most of my desktop drives are MBR because I CBB changing them, only the 3Tb HDD is GPT due to size reasons.
     
    Marksman30k, Sep 16, 2014
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    this thread made me think about reinitializing my os drive to gpt and testing the boot and shutdown times :) lets see what im gonna get...
     
    jaybee83, Sep 16, 2014
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